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Brief • April 29, 2014
Fields v. City of Chicago, IL, Verdict, Wrongful Conviction, 2014 VERDICT FORM - Fields v. City of Chicago, et al., Case No. 10 C 1168 We, the jury, find as follows on the claims of the plaintiff, Nathson Fields, against the defendants, the City of Chicago, David O'Callaghan, Joseph Murphy, …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Colorado Prisoner who Murdered Guard Gets Life Without Parole by Last month, Prison Legal News reported that the parents of a slain Colorado prison guard did not want the prisoner who murdered him to face the death penalty. Edward Montour, who beat Lima Correctional Facility guard Eric Autobee to death …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Filed under: Death Penalty
No Death Penalty for Maine Prisoner by Lance Tapley In 2008, within a supposedly high-security prison in the giant federal correctional complex in Florence, Colorado, Gary Watland, a “boarder” from Maine, murdered another prisoner, white supremacist Mark Baker. After five and a half years – and after, probably, millions in …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
When Victims Speak Up in Court – in Defense of the Criminals by Andrew Cohen A death penalty case in Colorado has generated an unusual fight between a district attorney and two parents who oppose capital punishment against the man who murdered their son. One of the most profound changes …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
Psst! Hey Man, Need Some Execution Drugs? by Officials in Delaware and 31 other states that use lethal injection to execute prisoners are scrambling to find new drugs to carry out death sentences, and in some cases are procuring them through secret exchanges and confidential deals – and from questionable …
Rules Governing Lethal Injections Not Required under Georgia Law by The Georgia Supreme Court has held that the state’s Board of Corrections (BOC) is not statutorily required to promulgate rules governing lethal injections. The Court further held that neither the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) nor the Commissioner of Corrections …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Hidden Agenda Fuels Challenge to Pivotal Death Penalty Case by David Protess Anthony Porter, the exonerated death row prisoner whose jubilant release from prison in February 1999 was the catalyst for abolishing the death penalty in Illinois, is back in the news after living in relative obscurity for years. A …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Unwanted Reprieve from Execution Upheld by Oregon Supreme Court by Christopher Zoukis As previously reported in PLN, Oregon death row prisoner Gary Haugen filed a legal challenge to Governor John Kitzhaber’s November 2011 decision to impose a moratorium on the state’s death penalty, which had the effect of granting Haugen …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Former Maryland Governor Acknowledges Politics Behind Life Means Life Policy by Parris Glendening, who served as Maryland's governor from 1995 through 2002, has acknowledged, around a decade later, the role that politics played in his adoption of a "life means life" policy that effectively ended early release for prisoners sentenced …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
A Prolonged Stay: The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions by Raymond Bonner by Raymond Bonner, ProPublica States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions. In California, which has the country's largest death row …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Ninth Circuit: Idaho Ordered to Allow Viewing of all Stages of Execution by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In reversing and remanding an Idaho federal district court's denial of a preliminary injunction, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals directed the lower court to enter an order requiring the State …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Reprieved Oregon Prisoner Wages Legal Fight to be Executed by As previously reported in PLN, on November 22, 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term in office. In doing so he canceled the scheduled execution of Gary Haugen, 50, …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Maryland Repeals Death Penalty by Christopher Zoukis On May 2, 2013, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to abolish the death penalty, and the 18th state – along with the District of Columbia – that has rejected capital punishment. Maryland is the first Southern state to forgo executions …
Article • May 15, 2013
Georgia Prison Doctor Sued for Illegally Importing Drugs Used to Execute Troy Davis by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 20, 2011, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) filed a complaint with the Georgia Composite Medical Board against Dr. Carlo Musso, seeking the revocation or suspension of …
Article • May 15, 2013
North Carolina Court Dismisses Petition for Judicial Review and Upholds Execution Protocol by North Carolina Department of Corrections' death row prisoners petitioned the Superior Court of North Carolina for judicial review of the Council of State's approval of an execution protocol order under G.S. 15-188 that would be carried out …
Article • April 15, 2013
Dismissal of §1983 Challenge to Alabama's Lethal Injection Procedure Reversed by Dismissal of §1983 Challenge to Alabama's Lethal Injection Procedure Reversed On March 21, 2012, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded with instructions a death row's prisoner's lethal injection procedure claim. Alabama State prisoner Thomas D. Arthur, …
Article • April 15, 2013
Florida Supreme Court Affirms Prisoner’s Death Sentence by The Supreme Court of Florida affirmed in February 2012 the circuit court’s denial of post-conviction relief in the death sentence of William Van Poyck. Appellant Van Poyck filed in 2007 a motion alleging his non-triggerman status as being of sufficient weight to …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Oregon Re-Sells Unused Execution Drugs by On November 22, 2011, death penalty opponents cheered Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s decision to halt the scheduled December 6, 2011 execution of Gary Haugen, and to impose a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term. Kitzhaber called the death penalty “compromised …
Article • November 15, 2012 • from PLN November, 2012
Nebraska Refuses to Return Execution Drug to Swiss Company by In its desperation to obtain a supply of sodium thiopental, one of the three drugs commonly used to carry out executions by lethal injection, the State of Nebraska circumvented the manufacturer, which does not sell the drug for use in …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Florida Death Row Prisoners Cannot Challenge Sentence Pro Se by Citing its “constitutional responsibility to ensure the death penalty is administered in a fair, consistent and reliable manner, as well as having an administrative responsibility to work to minimize the delays inherent in the post-conviction process,” the Florida Supreme Court …
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